Late Blight - the Irish Potato Famine Fungus - Is Attacking Northeast Gardens and Farms Now

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 15:42 in Biology & Nature

Home gardeners beware: This year, late blight -- a destructive infectious disease that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s -- is killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern United States.

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